Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Waiting List Status at Transplant		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	6,707	8,270	9,828	11,248	12,589	13,809	14,789	15,669	16,043	15,614
	Deaths	510	612	745	779	855	863	983	985	959	816
	Rate	95.9	89.6	91.0	81.7	79.2	71.6	76.2	72.2	70.1	76.8
1	Patients	1,461	2,128	2,981	3,857	4,951	6,028	7,033	8,060	7,258	6,238
	Deaths	149	198	270	312	395	401	501	513	338	253
	Rate	144.5	124.9	119.1	102.8	101.2	80.4	84.9	75.7	50.3	53.3
1A	Patients	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	729	1,401
	Deaths	-	-	-	-	-	*	-	-	109	137
	Rate	-	-	-	-	-	*	-	-	415.0	213.7
1B	Patients	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	781	1,363
	Deaths	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	75	96
	Rate	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	244.3	138.8
2	Patients	1,770	2,355	2,915	3,454	3,926	4,365	4,663	4,831	4,862	4,647
	Deaths	119	171	212	239	230	277	274	272	269	215
	Rate	85.4	90.6	88.9	82.6	68.2	72.7	67.0	63.5	64.0	68.6
Other	Patients	3,476	3,787	3,932	3,937	3,712	3,415	3,093	2,778	2,413	1,965
	Deaths	242	243	263	228	230	185	208	200	168	115
	Rate	83.6	72.3	74.4	63.3	65.4	56.9	71.5	77.4	77.1	81.2

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of August 1, 2001.

The sample includes patients with a new or functioning transplant at any time during the year. The period at risk begins on the later of January 1 or the transplant date and ends on the earlier of December 31, the date of death, or the last date of follow-up. Please see Technical Notes chapter for further details about computation of death rates.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = Values suppressed due to small N (0 to 9).